circus in a sundown town

Pie fighting: Sweet & Dirty Community Development

By

Paul Hallinan Milller

Pie Fighting

Sweet & Dirty Asymmertircal Community Development. A stranger than fiction, how-to guide for Disruptive Development: creative class destination creation. Tips and tricks on connecting private/public partnerships, historic tax credits, regulation crowdfunding, direct foreign investment, State Tourism Funds, Federal Export Grants, artists from 50 countries, and Reality Television superstars.

2009 ~ 322 - Elm Street Ludlow, Kentucky

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Prologue: Hygeia
On Martin Luther King Jr Day, January 20, 2025, the day Donald Trump took office, hate came knocking in Ludlow. Read more
1. Mojo
My name is Paul Hallinan Miller, and for the past two and a half years, I been in a battle, a defendant in a lawsuit, with a town that I love. Read more
2. Blackface
Starting off 2010, we encountered some challenges getting on a plane from Chicago to Houston. Read more
3. Workforce
In 2011 we applied for support through FUEL, a grant by Give Back Cincinnati. Read more
4. $1 Building
In 2012, the Madisonville Arts Center was facing difficulties. Read more
5. The Bank
Always striving to keep things local, I'd held accounts with the two town banks from the very beginning... Read more
6. KIDS and BEER?
I've been told many times "You can't mix youth circus and beer." Read more
7. Germans
The owners of the classic circus got rich by exploiting people, animals, and talent. John Ringling was the Musk/Zuckerberg of his day. ... Read more
8. Dealing Drugs
Feb. 13, 2018 The troubling discovery of a heroin needle in my parking lot... Read more
9. Circus Wellness
"What? A circus as a grief event?" A caller interrogated... Read more
10. Corn Dogs
Northern Kentucky has a string of enchanting little cities along the Ohio River boasting superb architecture from bygone eras... Read more
11. KOCH BROS. & Elected
When the city authorities shut down Circus Mojo in 2015, it inspired me to get politically active in Ludlow... Read more
12. Temptation
I tune in to the local news when I can, but Circus Mojo always... Read more
13. Big Blue & Robert E. Lee
I'm getting to an age now where my friends and I... Read more
14. Reality Television
In 2011 I got a call from a gentleman who lives in Rivers Breeze, the fancy condo development... Read more